Slated for release in about 18 months, we know, the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is getting ready the second generation XO-2 laptop with a low-powered ARM processor...

Creating cheap electronic devices has been a much hyped phenomenon in the developing world lately. India being in the epicenter, with claims of the people’s phone,...

Being Third World isn’t all too pathetic. People in these deepest darkest corners of the globe are used to hardship that this global financial crisis does not cause a...

“Marriage migration is a collective term referring to cross-border marriages which often involves women migrating to the home country of their husbands. The trend...

It is often said the health of a nation can be measured by its women. Yet one woman dies in childbirth every minute.Half a million women die in childbirth each year,...

This is the future projection...energy needs to go up by 50% by 2030...

With your goals set firmly, anything is attainable. And that holds true for some people who fused the power of pedal to render some brilliant green options especially...

The green-and-white cute little laptop does attract children, doesn’t it? But then how useful is it for a developing country where basic needs are yet to be met is...

“20 March 2008: For the first time ever, children in Capaculan village in Masbate, the Philippines are celebrating World Water Day on 22 March with clean, safe...

This is the first time I’ve come across an amazing inventor who claims to have invented a generator that uses yeast-and-sugar to generate electricity, but forgot...

India’s Finance minister P Chidambaram has told the developed countries to concentrate on their own problems and invest time to think for the solutions of the...

Developing countries will be able to fight diseases with the help of nanotechnology and hence improve the level of health standards in the country. A number of projects...

Most people crossing a dumpster immediately cover their noses; the overwhelmingly disgusting smell nauseates them. The area is swarming with flies, dogs, vultures,...

Oprah Winfrey is going for a voluntary HIV/AIDS test and certainly, it has set an impeccable example to thousands of people round the world that there should be no...

A new easily affordable satellite-based information system — GEONETCast system — is being developed and to be unveiled today at an international conference...

Arsenic problems and related-health hazards are looming large in various parts of the world, especially the poor countries - where the habitants struggle hard to earn a...

India is fast developing country with some unique characteristics. Describing all this in a New York Times article, Pankaj Mishra details the real picture inside from...

The $100 laptop from MIT was finally opened to public screening at Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. Here are pictures of the first working prototype that forms the...

About two million babies don’t see the second day and four million don’t see another month in the developing countries. The ’save the children’...

International standards for the production of chemicals are set. Environmental officials from 150 countries approved a broad agreement on it this Tuesday. U.N....